Nature reserve optimization with buffer zones and wildlife corridors for rare species

The creation of protected areas is an important public policy strategy for protecting species, as mentioned in the Aichi targets. This paper formulates spatial integer programming (set covering) models to protect both rare species (arbitrarily defined here as species breeding in 1% or less of the te...

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Main Authors: Valentin Hamaide, Bertrand Hamaide, Justin C. Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:Sustainability Analytics and Modeling
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667259622000017